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I should have used anticompetitive, apologies. The issue that I am seeing here is the following, and this may be a gross misinterpretation of the rules that ap
by jonbro 16y ago
I should have used anticompetitive, apologies.
The issue that I am seeing here is the following, and this may be a gross misinterpretation of the rules that apple has put forth.
I get a dropbox monthly account.
I access my dropbox account through the official dropbox client on iPhone.
Apple says that drobbox must do one of two things, either:
1. offer their service through apples store, and apple takes their skim.
2. pull their official app.
As far as I can tell from the rules that apple put forth, if you have a product for which you can sell recurring billing plans, you must give apple their opportunity to skim, even if you manage your own billing platform, and your margins are too thin to give apple their cut.
I can understand why apple wants it their way, and clearly it is good for consumers (no need to pull out your credit card, we got it on file already), but for businesses where the profit margin is really thin, adding 30% could kill you. So you can raise the price across the board to deal with apple, or you just don't have anything that can access your product on the iphone.
- rahoulb 16y agoAs I understand it (and I may be wrong) that particular scenario (Dropbox) is not well defined in the Apple rules - so it's wait-and-see how they enforce things. Personally I doubt they would piss off popular development shops like Dropbox and 37Signals (who have Highrise and Campfire clients in the App Store) - but then again they do have history there.